Chapter 1 Understanding Health and Wellness Lesson 2



















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Chapter 1 Understanding Health and Wellness Lesson 2 What affect your Health

Understanding how heredity, environment, and other factors affect your health can help you make healthy decisions.

Influences on Your Health Heredity, environment, attitude, behavior, media, and technology can all influence your health. Understanding these influences will help

Influences on Your Health • physical environment • culture • behavior •

Heredity Your heredity influences your health. Ask your parent or grandparent questions about what health conditions and diseases run in your family. Heredity

Environment Your environment includes The physical places in which you live. The people who make up your world. Environment • The culture you live in.

Physical Environmental Factors that Affect Your Health neighborhood safety • air quality • availability of parks availability of recreational facilities • • cleanliness of your surroundings

Social Environment Your social environment is made up of all the people around you, including your family and peers. Peers •

Social Environment Peers can have a influence on you.

Culture Your culture can influence your health. Your culture may include the language you speak, the foods you eat, your spiritual beliefs, and the traditions you practice. Culture •

Attitude • Your attitude is the • Optimists are usually

Behavior • You have total control over your own • You can choose to avoid high-risk behaviors in favor of healthful behaviors, like choosing • • •

Media and Technology The constant presence of media messages has a significant influence on your decisions. Media •

Media and Technology Media content is delivered via technology and through print media, like newspapers and magazines. Technology •

Media and Technology For valid health information, stick to Web sites that have. gov and. edu in their addresses, or sites maintained by professional health organizations.

Understanding Your Influences You can take control of your health by understanding the factors that influence it. Understanding these influences and committing to a healthy lifestyle are

After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 1. What does heredity mean?

After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 2. Define environment. Identify three types of environment.

After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 3. List two ways that media and technology may influence your health.
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